Lesbian Spectacles: Reading Sula, Passing, Thelma and Louise, and The Accused

Barbara Johnson

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When I proposed this topic for a paper in this collection, my intention was to push myself to try something I have never done before: to read explicitly as a lesbian, to take account of my particular desire structure in reading rather than try to make generalizations about desire as such, even lesbian desire "as such." Much has been said about the theoretical and political issues involved in what Nancy Miller calls "reading as \n a ."

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1979Melville's Fist: The Execution of "Billy Budd"1982My Monster/My Self 1985Thresholds of Difference: Structures of Address in Zora Neale Hurston 2002Bringing Out D. A. Miller 1978The Critical Difference 1993’Aesthetic’ and ‘rapport’ in Toni Morrison'sSula 1992The Postmodern in Feminism 1987Secret Sharing: Reading Conrad Psychoanalytically

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